TRAINING PARAMETERS/WORK

If strength is not maintained during the competitive phase the athlete
will be exposed to a detraining effect, with all its negative elements;

Muscle fibers decrease in their pre-training size.

In two weeks time, detraining can become evident, skills requiring strength
are not performed as proficiently.

Decrease of motor recruitment pattern and the loss of power. The body fails
to recruit the same number of motor units that it once could. Thus their
is a net decrease in the amount of force that can be generated.

Decreases in speed followed by decreases of power.

The main objective of strength training for this phase is to maintain the
standards achieved during the previous phases. The key to this phase is
providing enough intensity during the workouts to maintain or stimulate
a training effect throughout the season without interfering with skill
development. This program will be more intense than the fall program for
several reasons:

Abdominal: V-sit ups 3x12; Bicycle Crunch 3x30; Ball Routine 3x40(With
a medicine ball and with a partner, one partner sits on the floor with
the other partner standing on the feet of the person on the floor, the
person on the floor should look like they are at the top of a sit up, leg
at a 90 degree angle and leaning back at a 90 degree angle, then the partner
tosses the medicine ball 10x above the partners head on the floor, then
10 on each side, like a rotary throw, then to finish 10x above the head
again.

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